Announcements
CONGRATULATIONS: to Bud & Beckey Duelley on the birth of their first granddaughter, Carter Morgan Duelley, on Monday, February 17, weighing 6lbs, 6oz, and 18.5 inches long. The proud parents are Brandon & Corrine Duelley.
TEEN MISSION TRIP MEETING: As a reminder for parents and teens, there will be a Mission Trip meeting after the evening service next Sunday, March 2, with Pastor Josh in Baker.
LIVING CROSS NURSERY: We are in need of nursery workers for each night of the production. If you can help in this vital ministry, please text or call Anne-Marie Albaugh at (443) 375-2078.
DEACONS: Please pick up your packets at the Welcome Desk.
From My Heart
COMFORT
By: Dr. Curtis Hutson
There is no question we ask more often than, “Why?”
Hundreds of graves need to be explained. Hospitals for those in pain and misfortune, institutions for the insane and blind – things now utterly unexplainable – God will clear them all up someday.
Bartimaeus will thank God that he was blind; and Lazarus, that he was covered with sores; and Joseph, that he was cast into the pit; and Daniel, that he was in the lions’ den; and David, that he was driven from Jerusalem; and Dorcas, that she could only get a few pence for those beautiful handmade garments; and that invalid, who for 20 years could not lift his head from the pillow; and that widow, that she had such hard work to earn bread for her children.
It is reported that a minister chose as his text one Sunday
morning this phrase, “And it came to pass,” and he gave it this
development: (1) “It came” and (2) “It passed.”
Times of trial and blessing come to all of us – but they also pass. No affliction in this world but that “it comes” and “it also passes.” Our heavenly Father is keenly aware of just what each of us can bear.
One often sees on the approaches to bridges some such signs as LOAD LIMIT TEN TONS or LOAD LIMIT FIVE TONS, as the case may be, so that trucks with burdens that would endanger the safety of the bridge may not be driven over it.
Although Christians carry no visible signs, God knows the “load limit” of every one of us, and He will never permit that load limit to be violated or overtaxed.
When our cross seems heaviest, when it seems that our life has neither plan or purpose, when it seems that we are being pushed about by a blind and merciless fate, what comfort to remember that in every valley of affliction, our hand is in His! And with our hand in His, we are forever safe. His omnipotent hand will hold us; His affectionate hand will guide us.
May God’s Word and His promises bring you spiritual strength in heaping measure.
Hospitalizations
Norris Belcher, Sr. - Columbus, OH
Evelyn Clemons - JHH 590
Keith Cox - Encompass
Michael German - CHC 211
Betty Ogle -Washington Hosp. 17
Charles Rudisill - UMMC ICU
Susan Schuiling - St. Agnes 2603
Kim Smith - Sinai 644